TiVO Patent Upheld, Dish May Have to Disable DVR

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a ruling by a lower court that Dish Network DVRs infringe upon TiVO's patent on a 'multimedia time warping system'. According to some analysts, this could not only make Dish liable for damages, it could force them to shut down their DVR service, harming their customers. The patent in question has already been reexamined once and the ruling on appeal (PDF) was unanimous."

Comments

ST:DVR

[Anonymous Coward]

"Multimedia time warping"? What's this, Captain Picard's DVR?

Re:the jury

[Zymergy]

And that's just for the Plaintiff's (alleged) damages... I wonder how much the jury was paid?

Q: What's better than 1,000 Lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A: 1,000 Patent-Troll Lawyers at the bottom of the ocean.

Re:Yes You are rite

[Anonymous Coward]

Ouch you really have a grudge against that Muddabir Aziz don't you?

Re:MythTV

[The Mighty Buzzard]

I assume so. I mean look how quickly opensource solutions to mp3 encoding,dvd decrypting, and other such things were dropped because of US patents and such. Oh, wait...